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jackwilliambell

@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com

Whenever you are past the edge, out in the wind, look for me.

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MikeElgan, to random
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Following Google Maps directions in rural Tasmania and encountered this sign.

jackwilliambell,
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@MikeElgan

Boy do I know that one.

Google maps marks my (admittedly very long) driveway as a road actually located a quarter mile south of my place.

As a result I get three or four people a month driving past my 'keep out' and 'private road' signs to whom I must explain that Google is wrong.

Then I explain that driving past keep out signs up here in the mountains is a REALLY BAD IDEA and they are incredibly lucky they did it at my place and not one of my neighbors, who come out with a gun.

cstross, to random
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WHAT—

https://imightbewrong.substack.com/p/joel-coens-the-tragedy-of-macbeth

"Mr. Coen seems, on some level, to understand that he has the talent God gave a balloon full of piss, and therefore needs to latch onto more talented artists like a lamprey sucking the life out of a majestic blue whale …"

jackwilliambell,
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@cstross

Hahahaha… Is someone maybe still pissed about some childhood fight?

> "In summary: Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth is a bowl full of lizard jizz from history’s greatest sociopath. One wonders if a UN Resolution calling for the phrase “ART HOUSE HACK” to be forcibly tattooed on Mr. Coen’s forehead might be called for. Joel Coen has so thoroughly put his foot through this “piece of art” that it’s really more of a “piece of FART”, but this time, he can’t blame his fuckup on the dog."

jake4480, to history
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Only intact chicken's egg found from Roman Britain (around 1,700 years old, found in what is now Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire) is now thought to be the only of its type in the world - after scientists find it still has liquid inside 🤯

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68247184

#history #archaeology #science #chickens

jackwilliambell,
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@jake4480

Talk about your rotten eggs! I'll bet that one's extra whiffy.

jackwilliambell, to python
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> Toolong. A terminal application to view, tail, merge, and search log files (plus JSONL). https://github.com/Textualize/toolong?tab=readme-ov-file

Think tail, less and grep; all munged together with split screens and a bunch of pretty-print tools.

#Python #programming #ops

jackwilliambell, to random
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The new dollar store in the closest town finally opened today. I stopped in to check it out and was unsurprised to see their prices on the same goods as you can get at the IGA were anywhere from somewhat cheaper to far cheaper.

Which is bad news in the long run because I'm afraid the IGA will go out of business and then all the things they carry, but the dollar store doesn't, will require a two hour trip to buy.

In related news, I spent a dollar to make my dog REALLY happy. 🐶🦴

timbray, to random
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TFW you happen to be looking at your blog’s log and suddenly 2000-plus Fediverse instances hit it, meaning somebody said something about it, but there’s no way to find out who/where. Oh well, hope they were nice.

jackwilliambell,
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@timbray

This is why blogs should have an #ActivityPub enabled pingback service of some kind.

For now I think a smart move is to set up an 'announcement' account for your blog that posts a link to every new blog post; then aggregates any responses to it as blog post comments.

That way anyone who follows the announcement account can just boost the announcement and (maybe) post a comment response.

Free_Press, to news
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Russia might have used its new 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile for the first time against Ukraine this morning — Defense Express.

Photos of the wreckage labeled "ZM22" have been published.

They were found allegedly in Dniprovsky district of Kyiv near the affected power line. The publication assumes that the missile was shot down, as it is unlikely that the power line was its target.

Further investigation of the missile will be conducted.
#AureFreePress #News #Ukraine #Russia

jackwilliambell,
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@Free_Press

If the Ukrainians shot down a hypersonic missile with USA Patriot anti-missiles, we now know why the Pentagon hasn't been more openly worried by ZM22 capabilities.

But no matter how they did it, if it is a ZM22 and the Ukrainians shot it down with anything that's a black eye for Russia and their high-tech weapons programs.

KatM, to bluesky
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Are there incentives to convert Mastodonians over to ? I feel like I walked onto a used car lot this morning. Please stop evangelizing another Jack Dorsey product. We know where to find it. If you love it, good for you. And hey, we’ll see you on your return trip when he sells it to one of his billionaire libertarian friends!

jackwilliambell,
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@KatM

So far as I can tell, the main selling point of BlueSky over the Fediverse is no one calls you out for crypto-racist/ableist/anti-LGBQ language or chides you for not adding alt-text to your images.

deshipu, to random
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    jackwilliambell,
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    @deshipu

    That was, basically, the plot of a novel I worked on for a bit and then abandoned.

    Only my novel also had sentient ravens, a taboo on banks and any currency other than metal coins, North America broken into a hundred little theocracies, and a resurgent Aztec polity in Mexico and Southern California armed with nuclear weapons.

    ETA: My story didn't feature any progress in social sciences; rather a general regression into a semi-industrial Middle Ages.

    jackwilliambell,
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    @deshipu

    I'm saying they go to the next level and build cities. Sort of.

    They also become herdsbirds and practice a form of agriculture.

    jackwilliambell,
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    @deshipu

    Well, yes. And no. Reasoning and adaptability beyond what is possible with termites would be involved. Also their advancement happens over a period of a century, as opposed to developing evolution-driven emergent behaviors over millennia.

    In my story the ravens do have a kind of group intelligence, but it's related to flocking behaviors. They are also very intelligent individually and have a much expanded vocabulary over existing Corvus language. Enough a human can talk to one.

    jackwilliambell,
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    @deshipu

    Just deep background.

    World building is kind of my thing. Sadly, a lot of the time I do some kick-ass world building and then lose interest in the rest of the project.

    Binder, to random
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    The only RTO I’m interested in is Returning To Orbit, ya fkn gravity well suckers

    jackwilliambell,
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    @Binder

    I'd rather have RTOI. (Return To Orbit Incarnate.)

    Fuck that sending your ashes up there shit. I'd be dead. And that takes all the fun out of it.

    eff, to random
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    Courts should interpret the 4th Amendment to bar the government from buying phone location data since “in order to acquire this data directly from a person or from their service provider, they would have to get a warrant,” EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told FedScoop. https://fedscoop.com/ice-says-its-stopped-using-phone-location-data/

    jackwilliambell,
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    @eff @Adam_D_Schwartz

    Laws should exist to prohibit selling that information in the first damn place. And we should have a conversation about why it is collected and how long it is retained.

    jackwilliambell, to money
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    Fuck you TurboTax!

    > IRS launching new programs to make filing easier as 2024 tax season begins The new options allow eligible taxpayers to file for free through the IRS. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/new-irs-filing-programs-launch-2024-tax-season/story?id=106761536

    The two options are 'Direct File' and 'IRS Free File' (via 'IRS partners').

    FWIW? The Free File partners DO NOT INCLUDE scammy and full of dark patterns TurboTax.

    I say, go with Direct File if possible.

    #taxes #money

    jackwilliambell, to geopolitics
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    Seeing some variations on a headline reading: "The #economy is doing well right now, but it could still go bad due to [various things outside of US government control and mostly outside the country entirely]."

    (Oil price shocks are the reason most commonly cited, but there are others.)

    I would like to point out three things:

    1. Yes, these things could cause the USA economy to falter

    2. This was always true and will continue to be

    3. See: https://www.anxiety.org/current-events-media-reporting-create-fear-anxiety

    #economics #uspol

    jackwilliambell, to Scotland
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    > #Scotland’s oldest tartan, found in a peat bog, has been recreated and is now available to buy. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/22/style/glen-affric-scotland-oldest-tartan-intl-scli-gbr/index.html

    georgetakei, to random

    It is indeed true.

    jackwilliambell,
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    @georgetakei

    Yeah, true. But it's a FRENCH tire company. That makes all the difference.

    jackwilliambell, to random
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    Kevin Standlee sub-posts on the 2023 Hugo ballot controversy…

    > Elections Have Consequences. https://kevin-standlee.dreamwidth.org/2296160.html

    I'm very glad to see I'm not the only one looking askance at the Chinese government in this matter. Of course, there is no way to know what's going on right now, because the Chengdu Worldcon concom (were, and the 2023 Hugo admins currently are) completely opaque.

    I can't even tell you the names of the Hugo admins. Which seems weird as fuck to me.

    jackwilliambell, to cyberpunk
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    Here's something straight out of a #cyberpunk novel:

    > The MouthPad^ is a tongue-driven interface that controls your computer, smartphone, or tablet via Bluetooth. Virtually invisible to the world, but always available to you, it is positioned across the roof of your mouth to put all of the power of a conventional touchpad at the tip of your tongue. https://www.augmental.tech/

    #computers #wearables #WTF

    danlyke, to random
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    As I was copy-and-pasting to re-toot a Mastodon post on to my blog, I had a huge moment of... I appreciate that there are a few folks I interact with on Flutterby. I do occasionally use it as long-term memory, although with the decay of the web I'm not sure how much value that has any more.

    I've got a few bugs in my CMS that I've been threatening to fix for years, but maybe the social web's time is over and it's time to just do something else with the domain names.

    jackwilliambell,
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    @danlyke

    I take it you don't buy into Anil Dash's optimism about the 'real web' coming back?

    jackwilliambell, to security
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    When you are watching the computer #security community recapitulate the history of the #SFF community in dealing with a sexual predator. With the same unsatisfying to anyone results.

    > https://fanlore.org/wiki/Breendoggle

    #CCC

    heidilifeldman, to random
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    Very good essay on why we should use every legal means available to defeat the rise of fascism and the absurdity of abandoning U.S. Constitutional measures to do so. https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-trump-inspired-violence https://findinggravity.substack.com/p/the-threat-of-trump-inspired-violence @foser

    jackwilliambell,
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    @heidilifeldman @foser

    This graph:

    > Inherent in the existence of the 14th Amendment’s prohibition on insurrectionists and traitors ascending to high office is the premise that such a candidate might have a large number of supporters … The 14th Amendment exists precisely because of the possibility that a participant in insurrection could subsequently amass enough followers to have a chance to win election.

    johnshirley2024, (edited ) to random

    I don't wish to say Merry Christmas to my atheist friends (which is the majority of my friends). Happy Holidays sounds so limp. Do they have something they say? Perhaps Merry Christ-less? Or --Secular Seasons Greetings?

    jackwilliambell,
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    @johnshirley2024

    Happy Newtonmass.

    (Yes, Issac Newton was born on Christmas Day, old calendar.)

    brainwise, to random
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    Perfect for a Sunday morning, here is Dead Territory with their Death Metal cover of JohnCage's 4'33".

    Warning: THIS IS AN ABSOLUTE BANGER and it might get stuck in your head all day.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGEG4JiOqew

    Thank you, @pluralistic. I had no no idea how much I needed this in my life!

    jackwilliambell,
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    @etchedpixels @VoxofGod @wcbdata @brainwise @pluralistic

    Q: What has 12 arms, 8 legs, 6 teeth, and bad breath?

    A: Front row at a banjo workshop.

    (I'm a musician myself. I can do this all day.)

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